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New features available on VMware vSphere PowerCLI 11.0 is to support the new all updates and release of VMware products , find the below following has been features,

New Security module

vSphere 6.7 Update 1

NSX-T 2.3

Horizon View 7.6

vCloud Director 9.5

Host Profiles – new cmdlets for interacting with

New Storage Module updates

NSX-T in VMware Cloud on AWS

Cloud module multiplatform support

Get-ErrorReport cmdlet has been updated

PCloud module has been removed

HA module has been removed

Now we will go through above mentioned new features to find what functionality it bring to PowerCLI 11.0

What is PowerCLI 11.0 New Security Module

The new security module brings more powerful automation features to PowerCLI 11.0 available new cmdlets include the following

Get-SecurityInfo

Get-VTpm

Get-VTpmCertificate

Get-VTpmCSR

New-VTpm

Remove-VTpm

Set-VTpm

Unlock-VM

Also New-VM cmdlet has enhanced functionality with the security module functionality and it includes parameters like KmsCluster, StoragePolicy, SkipHardDisks etc which can be used while creating new virtual machines with PowerCLI .In addition to that Set-VM, Set-VMHost, Set-HardDisk, and New-HardDisk cmdlets are added.

Host Profile Additions

There are few additions to the VMware.VimAutomation.Core module that will make managing host profiles from PowerCLI

Get-VMHostProfileUserConfiguration

Set-VMHostProfileUserConfiguration

Get-VMHostProfileStorageDeviceConfiguration

Set-VMHostProfileStorageDeviceConfiguration

Get-VMHostProfileImageCacheConfiguration

Set-VMHostProfileImageCacheConfiguration

Get-VMHostProfileVmPortGroupConfiguration

Set-VMHostProfileVmPortGroupConfiguration

Storage Module Updates

These new Storage Module updates specifically for VMware vSAN , the updates has predefined time ranges when using Get-VsanStat. In addition Get-VsanDisk has additional new properites that are returned including capacity, used percentage, and reserved percentage. Following are the cmdlets have been added to automate vSAN

Get-VsanObject

Get-VsanComponent

Get-VsanEvacuationPlan – provides information regarding bringing a host into maintenance mode and the impact of the operation on the data, movement, etc